Main target of the “Förderinitiative Energiespeicher” is, to improve the collaboration between economy and science along the entire value chain, to ease international research cooperation and thus speed up the development of energy storage technologies in Germany.

The joint research projekt tubulAir± is being funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research starting on September, 1st 2012 over a project period of five years.

Furthermore tubulAir± is part of the lighthouse “Integration und Nutzung von Batteriesystemen in Verteilnetzen”. Within this lighthouse, various organizations collaborate theme-related both in basic and in applied research to foster the integration and use of batteries in electric grids.